3 I passed on to you what I received, of which this was most important: that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures say;
4 that he was buried and was raised to life on the third day as the Scriptures say;
5 and that he was seen by Peter and then by the twelve apostles.
6 After that, Jesus was seen by more than five hundred of the believers at the same time. Most of them are still living today, but some have died.
7 Then he was seen by James and later by all the apostles.
8 Last of all he was seen by me—as by a person not born at the normal time.
9 All the other apostles are greater than I am. I am not even good enough to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.